Dialogue and Opinion
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June 17, 2018
What It Means to Be a Female Dog
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” If George…
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June 9, 2018
Syria and the Left: The Pitfalls of Anti-Imperialism
What we need are more humbled, self-reflective anti-imperialisms. What we cannot forget is that, as members of imperial nations, we…
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April 7, 2018
Portrait of the American Gun Owner
Like all social justice movements that reach the mainstream, gun control rhetoric faces the danger of echoing the very oppressive…
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April 5, 2018
The Commodification of Makeup
On one hand, makeup is one of the few art forms historically dominated by women, and I do appreciate its…
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April 5, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Mitsuye Yamada
Mitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American writer, educator, and activist. Her works expose the discrimination faced by Japanese Americans during…
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April 4, 2018
Feminism 101: What are Safe Spaces?
Safe spaces are generally intended by their creators to encourage identity-focused conversation without risk of physical or emotional harm.
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March 19, 2018
Self Care or Societal Care?
The real issue is not that individuals don’t take care of themselves, but that society does not take care of…
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March 11, 2018
UCLA: Defend Boyle Heights on Artwashing and Gentrification
The movement against gentrification must be explicitly militant and anti-capitalist. Liberal fantasies of peaceful protest and voted reform do nothing…
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February 28, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Angela Davis
Davis has since become the figurehead for the prison abolition movement, a movement that calls into question what it means…
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February 22, 2018
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins is an acclaimed social theorist known for her intersectional approach to the sociologies of feminism, Black liberation,…
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